WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS
NATIONAL COUNCIL SCHEME BETTER CONTROL PROPOSED (Special to Times) NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday The necessity for immediate action on the part of the Government to create a national council against tuberculosis was urged at the final session of the Dominion conference of the Hospital Boards’ Association of New Zealand at New Plymouth to-day. Mr J. A. Nash, of Palmerston North, moved in that direction, suggesting that such council be associated with the Department of Health and consist of representatives of the department, practitioners who are specialists in the treatment of the disease, and hospital boards which control sanatoria. The resolution further urged that the council should at an early date formulate, especially as regards the North Island, a scheme f'«r the treatment of tuberculosis and should especially investigate the necessity lor accommodation being provided, either by individual hospital boards or by groups of hoards, for the better control and supervision of cases of chronic tuberculosis in special hospitals and colonies. The remit was carried unanimously.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20727, 10 February 1939, Page 5
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167WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20727, 10 February 1939, Page 5
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